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The Ministry of the Environment affirms that it was necessary to change the regulations, since the old ones with an amendment in 2016 were approved in 2002, and for a long time a series of legal acts regulating the protection of protected areas have changed.
“The new regulations clarify the objectives and exceptional value of establishing a biosphere reserve, protection and management characteristics (detailed in different priority functional areas of the reserve), clearer requirements for economic activities, general principles of reserve management of biosphere, as well as rules for visits for educational, training or other purposes. “, – read the ministry report.
It also states that the local population has been granted more rights to berries, mushrooms and fish in the reserve area.
“The hitherto unregulated possibility that the inhabitants of some villages proliferate in the Buktabalė and Liūliškis nature reserves of the Žuvintas Biosphere Reserve has been legalized,” the ministry said.
In accordance with the regulations, residents of the villages of Naujavalakiai, Ąžuoliniai, Žuvintai, Aleknonys, Grinkiškės, Liepakoja, Rietai, Šernai, Miknonys, Vidgirėliai, Daukšiai, Liūliškis and Kumečiai have declared their residence in these villages.
Berries are allowed during the day (until 5 pm) for a period of two days (weekends), the beginning of the berries is determined by the Directorate of the Biosphere Reserve of Žuvintas, taking into account the maturation of the blueberries.
At that time, mushrooms are allowed in the Buktabalė and Liūliškyn residents nature reserves for residents who have declared their place of residence in the Vartai, Naujavalakiai, Pabuktė, Paželsviai and Kumečiai villages and live in the territory of the Biosphere Reserve Žuvintas and have identity documents from August 1 to 30.
According to the Ministry of the Environment, the new regulations more clearly regulate the possibilities for local residents to do limited winter fishing in the Žuvintas Nature Reserve (Lake Žuvintas).
Until now, according to the ministry, only residents of five villages adjacent to the lake had the right to fish in winter, and the new regulations provide that opportunity to residents of all the villages and single-family villages bordering the Žuvintas Nature Reserve that have declared your place of residence.
There are 14 of those towns, according to the ministry.
Regulations state that fishing in Žuvintas can only be done by local residents who have declared their place of residence in towns and single-family houses bordering the Žuvintas Nature Reserve, among other things, ice fishing is only allowed from the first of December until the first of February.
Locals visiting for limited fishing purposes must have IDs with them.
Fishing, among other things, is more clearly regulated in other lakes in the territory of the Žuvintas – Žaltytis and Amalve Biosphere Reserve, the periods when fishing and fishing conditions are possible.
The Ministry of the Environment hopes that the new provisions of the reserve, the objectives and specific protection methods will increase the effectiveness of the protection of the protected values here and improve the attitude of the local population towards this protected area.
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